In the 1930s, physicians approached the mental illness of depression a bit differently that we do today. While acknowledging typically the etiology for their patients is likely due to some great misfortune in their individual lives, the physician focused on what was known as a complex.

A complex is the disturbances of ideas and impulses that are the cause of consistent habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.
An example of this state of mind of one who is depressed is one... read more